Ratings watch: Lakers-Thunder game gets team's second-best rating this season

The Lakers-Thunder game on Friday night earned a combined 12.6 rating — 6.9 on Fox Sports Oklahoma and 5.7 on ESPN — as the Thunder's second-highest rated telecast this season, trailing only a 13.6 for the Rockets game Nov. 28 on FSOK. The Thunder-Nets telecast on Dec. 4 also finished in the top five for the week with a 9.3. ESPN's Heisman Trophy presentation show had a 3.7 rating.

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by Mel Bracht

Copy Editor, Sports Media

Mel Bracht is a copy editor on the presentation desk and also covers sports media. A 1978 graduate of Indiana University, Bracht has been a print journalist for 34 years. He started his career as sports editor of the Rensselaer (Ind.) Republican...